A translation of the letter, which is written in German, is as follows:
Most Gracious Great-Aunt.—
Allow me, even at this late date. personally to inform you of the important event which affects my life.
I am convinced that you, too, with that grace you have always shown me, have found joy in the news of my engagement to my cousin Victoria. I beg you to convey my most cordi X regards to my two cousins, to wHom T would have written personally had I been able to find time to do so.
Only a few days remain to me my home, as our wedding is to be celebrated on February 4 in London prepared to turn over to the church It was voted that this board trustees should be the custodian of the deeds and the properties for all the churches and subordinate coun oils under the general assembly. Now that the church has become a legal body with an organized board of trustees, it is expected that the coop^rating foreign missionary societies will gradually transfer their pro perties used for evangelist and church purposes to the Chinese church
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.